Evel Knievel Quotes
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
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'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
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I cook what I like.
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But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
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Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
